Lagorio READERS 1981

TO OUR READERS
Author(s): Valerie M. Lagorio and Ritamary Bradley

Source: 14th Century English Mystics Newsletter , March 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1 (March
1981), pp. 1-5
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14- Century English Mystics
NEWSLETTER
Volume VII/No. 1 March, 1981
TO OUR READERS:
We want to thank you for your prompt resp

our appeal for subscriptions and renewals, e
as this support will help to insure the cont
of the Newsletter, certainly through and hop
beyond its seventh year.
In addition to her teaching and Julian res

Ritamary has been participating in the Quad
Communiversity, an experiment in continuing e
sponsored by the Iowa and Illinois Humanities
which is meeting with great success. Valer
mersed in her course on Dante, as well as a
medieval manuscripts and handwriting, and is
comitant ly researching the Continental women
and completing the writing of the Wells1 Manu
section on the English mystics. So it is a b
rewarding spring for us.

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In addition to Exeter Symposium II, July 6-9,
1982, we would like to acquaint you with the follow
ing meetings, all of which should be of interest to
scholars and friends of the mystics. An interdisci
plinary seminar on "The Spirituality of Western
Christendom II: The Roots of Modern Christian Spir
ituality" will be conducted June 7-21 by The Insti
tute of Cistercian Studies, Western Michigan Uni
versity, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008. Among the speak
ers will be Jean Leclercq, Kent Emery, Jr# ("The
Fourteenth Century English Mystics"), Otto Gr?ndler
("The Devotio Moderna"), Valerie Lagorio ("Medieval
Women Recluses"), and Kieran Kavanaugh ("The Carmelite
Mystics of Spain"). A Mystical Prayer Institute is
being conducted by the Emmanuel House of Prayer,
116 East Jefferson Street, Iowa City, la. 52240,
from July 20-24, which offers the following program:
Rev. Dan Crosby, "Mystical life as the pray-er per
ceives it"; Fr. John Boyle, "Mystical Theology";
Valerie Lagorio, "Mystics and the Mixed Life"; Fr.
John Gerlach, "Mystical Growth and Interpersonal
Relationships;" and Sr. Mary Dingman, "Mystical
Prayer: Living Flame of Love." There will be an
International Colloquium on Patristic and Medieval
Studies, entitled "Type, Symbol, Allegory of the
Eastern Fathers and their Parallels in the Middle
Ages," at the University of Eichst?tt, West Germany,
July 2-5, 1981. Of special note is Margot Schmidt's
paper, "Die Augensymbolik bei Ephraem und Parallelen
in der deutschen Mystik." We would again call your
attention to the Congress on Carthusian Mysticism at
the Charterhouse of TUckelhausen, organized by James
Hogg for the first week in September, 1981; the CAES
Conference at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana,
convened by Prof. Bruce Hozeski on October 16-17,
1981, and welcoming papers on medieval and Renais
sance subjects; Prof. Frank Gentry's double session
on the mystics at Kalamazoo in May, 1981; and the
Modern Language Association Religious Approaches to

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Literature Division meeting in December, 1981, which
will focus on the literary achievement of mystics,
the novelist's treatment of mystical experience, or
more theoretical issues of mysticism. Further
information on this event can be obtained from
Prof. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Rte#3, Box 139,
Hewitt, N.J. 07421. Finally, there will be a
Fifteenth Century Symposium in Regensburg, Germany
August 11-16, 1982, sponsored jointly by Prof. Karl
Heinz G?ller, Department of English, University of
Regensburg, and the Conveners of the annual Fifteenth
Century Symposium at the International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Prof.
Guy Mermier and Prof. Edelgard DuBruck. The general
topic will be f'The Turning Tide: Transition and
Evolution in the Fifteenth Century. Abstracts of
a 30-minute presentation should be submitted by
December 31, 1981, to Prof. Mermier, Dept. of Romance
Languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan 48109, or Prof. DuBruck, Dept. of Foreign
Languages, Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan
48221. James Hogg is also scheduling a Congress on
mysticism at Klosterneuberg in the latter part of
summer, 1982, and details will be announced in the
next Newsletter. Surely the foregoing activities
manifest the ever-increasing interest in western
mysticism and especially the medieval mystics, and
hopefully many of our readers will be able to par
ticipate in and/or attend these meetings.
At long last, Routledge and Kegan Paul have an

nounced that Wolfgang Riehle's The Middle English
Mystics (the English translation of his Studien zur
englischen Mystik des Mittelalters unter besonderer
Ber?cksichtigung ihrer Metaphorik) will be available
in June, 1981, and Garland Publications will publish
our 14th-century English Mystics Bibliography, also
in June, 1981. While on the subject of works on the
mystics, we have just learned that James Hogg

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will be publishing Prof. Phyllis Hodgson's collective
study and edition of the Cloud author's corpus.
A number of subscribers have inquired about the

papers resulting from the seminar on Medieval Mysti
cism, conducted by Valerie in Fall, 1980. The fol
lowing topics attest to the wide range of research
interests residing in the medieval mystics: "Un
folding Enfolding Love," an exploration of Julian's
spirituality; "Bodily and Spiritual Thirst: God's
Longing and Humanity's Pain," a study of Julian's
eighth Showing; "Structural and Conceptual Uses of
Triads in Julian of Norwich's Revelations; "The Mixed
Life According to Walter Hilton, the Cloud author,
Julian of Norwich, and Thomas Merton;" "A Study of
'No-thing1 in the Tibetan Book of the Dead and The
Cloud of Unknowing;" "'Necessary unto her, or to
her fellow Christians': Margery Kempe, the Mixed
Life, and Implications for Secular Actives;"
"Mechthild of Magdeburg and the Minnesang Tradition;"
"The Apophatic Strategy of The Cloud of Unknowing;"
and "Language and the Ineffable: The Organic Style
of Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Julian
of Norwich."
We continue to welcome articles, book reviews,

and reports on research in progress or completed,
as well as dissertations. We regret that the
space limitations of the FCEMN necessitate long
delays in the publication of articles and reviews,
but are trying to reduce this delay factor, and
thus keep you fully informed of current scholarship
on the mystics.
As we enter our seventh year, we want to ex

press our gratitude to Dean Duane Spriestersbach
of the Graduate College, and Prof. Richard Lloyd
Jones, Chairman, Department of English, University
of Iowa, for their encouraging support of the

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Newsletter. While we cannot rely on their generosity
in perpetuity, they have been the FCEMN1s leading
"angels" and we are all in their debt.
With our best wishes for a Joyous Easter.
Valerie M. Lagorio and Ritamary Bradley
CORRESPONDENCE:
A recent letter from Rev. Brant Pelphrey, United

Was Lutheran Church, Schulenberg, Texas, reports:
We received a letter from the Community of All
Hallows,' Norwich, saying that my wife and I were
elected to be Associates of the Order. We are the
first ecumenical Associates. We had not applied
for this, but had prayed for some time to be associ
ated with some kind of order, so that we could have
the external discipline of a Rule. We are very glad
to be linked to St. Julian's in this way. Our house
will be an extension of All Hallows' work, we hope,
as well as a site for retreats and prayer.
Second, I had a letter from Dr. Hogg, indicating
that Darton, Longman and Todd had read a part of my
manuscript and liked it, though it was too long. I
wrote to them to ask if they would like to consider
a shorter manuscript on different lines. That let
ter crossed in the mails with a letter from one of
their editors, who was asking for a short popular
book on Julian, and possibly a second book on
English mystics. We have corresponded and I am at
work on the Mother Julian book, which I hope to have
written before too long. Also, we are reading the
proofs for Julian of Norwich: A Theological Ap
praisal, which Dr. Hogg is publishing. (See FCEMN
III/4, 17-18; IV/3, 1-2, 7; V/l, 1)

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In addition to her teaching and Julian res

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